When organs are under attack!

I first encountered this game when Joys whipped it out of her bag after our epic hike in Mount Makiling. We were at Siento Café, having just finished our cold drinks and pastries. The second time I played this game was with Joycelyn, Jackie, and Anna in California, after we've had dinner at Tita Babie's house.

It's a card game called OrganATTACK! Like the name suggests, the caricature-like organs were subjected to different illnesses. The aim of the game is to be the last organ standing. To do so, one has to remove the other players' organs as rapidly as possible using "attack cards" that featured organ-specific afflictions (e.g., gallstones, arrhythmia, and thyroiditis) or "wild cards" that could attack any organ (e.g., necrosis). All hope is not lost, however, because there's a chance that one can get "defensive cards" that can be used to prevent organ death and cards that can force players to switch  their cards among each other, drop their attack cards, or to get the competition to lose their turns. 

Playing OrganATTACK! was really a lot of fun. Aside from strategising, we got to learn a bit more about several illnesses. The affliction cards provided more information about the different illnesses that could eliminate the different organs... not all of the afflictions featured could cause real death for organs though; for example, tonsil stones are not lethal in real life.

OrganATTACK! is also a fast-moving game that we could play several times in the span of an hour. This certainly is not a game of Monopoly, which can be rather tiresome.

This is certainly an example of nerdy games cool people will want to play.